graduate at Ciencias Sociais from Universidade de São Paulo (1982), master's at Science Politics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1988) and ph.d. at Ciência Política from University of Chicago (1993). Has experience in Science Politics, focusing on Specific Governmental Institutions, acting on the following subjects: democracia, legislativo, regimes politicos, desenvolvimento and executivo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project will explore attempts to moralize electoral processes in Brazil from a long-term historical perspective. We will carefully identify the main perceived failings of Brazilian Representative Government during its key historical phases: the First Republic, the Third Republic, and the Fourth Republic). Our objective is to discuss and provide explanations for the rain electoral ref…
This proposal is a sequence of four previous versions of the project and keeps its analytical and methodological objectives. The project main objective is to show the importance institutional variables for the working of democratic governments. The specific objectives of the project have been redefined and enlarged at each version. The main object and the methodological approach provide t…
We propose a MIT-USP collaboration to recover 45 years of Brazilian electoral data from government archives for the use for social scientists and historians. The availability of this disaggregated, local-levei, municipal data for the entire country will allow social scientists to address important and thus far unanswered questions about the transformation of Brazilian politics over the la…
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Does changes in veto legislative appraisal impact Executive-Legislative interactions? We intend to study and understand the nature and dynamics of the Executive and Legislative interactions around presidential vetoes. Furthermore, if this nature varies depending of the veto appraisal legislative institutions' weakness or strength. In other words, we want to analyze what makes the Executiv…
Since its first edition, the project "Political Institutions, Interaction Standards Executive-Legislative and Governing Capacity" organizes and updates data collection of federal legislatures in order to update Cebrap Legislative Database. Over the duration of the project, the bank has been incorporating more data and becoming increasingly complex. Currently, the Cebrap Legislative Databa…
This project aims to continue the collection and systematization of electoral data on the Third Brazilian Republic, already collected by the Thematic Project, with an emphasis on information about the parties at the time, based on a series of documents obtained from the Superior Electoral Court.(AU)
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According to spatial theory of voting (Downs, 1957), voters will cast their votes for the candidate whose policy position is the closest to their own views. However, to do that, they require some abilities. First, voters should be able to place themselves on an ideological scale. And, most important, they should be able to estimate the candidates' position on that scale. In other words, t…
This research investigates the effects of the district distribution of electoral support of parties on the national effective number of parties, as well as the determinants of such distribution. I depart from Cox's remarks that the propositions of Duverger operate in the electoral district level and, therefore, can only explain the effective number of parties within each of those district…
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